Comment by jajuuka

I grew up the same way and it's for sure wild to think back how if we had a question about something we had to do digging at a library to find the answer hopefully. Now it's just search and done. Or read a wikipedia page about it.

I do see the "I asked chatGPT" response more and more and initially had a similar feeling but I think it's still early days for LLM's. Will they be around in 10 years and ubiquitous like search engines? Who knows. But undoubtably they will get better over time and more accurate. Just like how the early internet had a lot of bad information on it, it got better over time.

This might also be a divide between different types of people. Personally I am very curious and want to really understand how something works so I get tons of information that won't help me solve a problem, but I understand the tool or part better. I would guess you might be in the same basket. But there are also people who just want the answer to solve the problem. They don't care how it works they just want it to work. And that's fine. It takes all kinds. Not everyone needs to have a masters in CS to use a computer or program one. Best we can do is try and nurture curiosity among other people and help them figure out ways to learn more and more.